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...complaints about the curriculum—which I am, I suppose, to the extent that I think any education needs to be rooted, to some extent, in a common cultural tradition. But I would be delighted to see a reformed Core Curriculum that included a vast swathe of “foreign cultures” requirements, so long as those requirements were selected out of a concern for “fact-based learning,” rather than the deep silliness of “approaches to knowledge...
...panel discussion at Lamont Library yesterday, the Iraqi students’ faculty advisor, University of Baghdad professor Hamdan, said he believed the vast majority of Iraqis had opposed Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. But he added that since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, everyday life in Iraq had been marked by danger, difficulty traveling, and scarcity of goods...
After surrendering two power-play goals in its 4-1 Beanpot loss to Boston College, the Crimson penalty kill went a perfect 11-for-11 over the weekend, bringing the units’ success rate to nearly 83 percent, a vast improvement from earlier stretches...
...Pentagon, which did an extensive study of deserters four years ago, says the vast majority tend to be younger soldiers with troubled records who make a break for it because of personal or financial woes rather than moral or political objections. "Often, we have found, soldiers cannot find an honorable way out and just leave their units," says Lieut. Colonel Susan Danielsen, the provost marshal at Fort Bragg Army base. Whatever the reason, discontent in the ranks seems to be starting to show, especially among National Guard and Reserve soldiers, some of whom probably never bargained for the full-time...
...DIED. DOROTHY STANG, 74, American nun who spent decades fighting efforts by illegal loggers and ranchers to appropriate vast areas of land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen, just days after she met with Brazil's Human-Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent federal investigators and the first of 2,000 troops to the region, calling for a crackdown on violence against land activists...